![]() ![]() Yep attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His teacher, a priest, told him and a couple of his friends that to get an A, they had to get a piece of writing accepted by a magazine, and that's when he started to realize that a career in writing was meant to be. His first writing was done in high school, for a science fiction magazine. ![]() Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco where he continued his interest in chemistry and became equally intrigued with writing. As it says in his autobiography, "I was too American to fit into Chinatown, and too Chinese to fit in anywhere else." As a boy, Yep attended a bilingual school in Chinatown. Most of his life, he has had the feeling of being out of place, whether because he is the non athlete in his athletic family or because he is Chinese and once lived in Chinatown but does not speak the language. A great deal of his work involves characters feeling alienated or not fitting into their surroundings and environment, something Yep has struggled with since childhood. and Chinese culture, and expressed this in many of his books. ![]() Growing up, he often felt torn between U.S. His older brother, Thomas, named him after studying a particular saint in a multicultural neighborhood that consisted of mostly African Americans. Yep was born in San Francisco to Yep Gim Lew (Thomas) and Franche. ![]()
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